Todd Moore and Lawrence Welsh Read at Acequia Booksellers | Vox Audio

This reading took place on July 12, 2009 at Acequia Booksellers, 4019 Fourth St. NW, Albuquerque, NM. Todd Moore is the author of over a hundred poetry books and chapbooks. His central concern for the last 35 years has been with the Dillinger legend. Lawrence Welsh’s two most recent books are Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (Pitchfork Press 2007) and Skull Highway (La Alameda Press 2008). Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Copyright 2009 Todd Moore, Lawrence Welsh and Vox Audio, PO Box 594 Magdalena NM 87825 Continue reading

Headlights | Manuel Mota

Manuel Mota, born 1970, Lisbon, Portugal. Public activity since 1989. Has performed in Europe and U.S.A. Between 1989 and 1997 he studies and experiments with prepared guitar, mainly acoustic. Since then his interests shifted to the development of a language for fingerstyle electric guitar. Works in a regular basis with bassist Margarida Garcia and trumpeter Sei Miguel (both collaborations since 1997) Funds the record label ‘Headlights’ in 1998. Continue reading

Jessica Jones Quartet | Word | NA 1045

Her Jessica Jones Quartet has been featured in the What Is Jazz? Festival at New York’s Knitting Factory and also at the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival at Yoshi’s in Oakland, in addition to performing at many Bay Area and East coast clubs, colleges and radio stations. Jessica also performs in a duet setting with her husband Tony. Word is her fourth recording as a leader and follows 2005’s Nod (New Artists Records), 2002’s Shakeup (independent release) and 1997’s Family (Nine Winds). She also performed as part of Joseph Jarman’s Lifetime Visions Orchestra on 2006’s Lifetime Visions for the Magnificent Humans. Continue reading

Robert Alexander and Dennis Maloney | The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry | Gazelle Books

This collection is unique in its diversity and includes voices from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. Poets include Nin Andrews, Robert Bly, Aleš Debeljak, Russell Edson, Marie Harris, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Peter Johnson, Kim Kwang Kyu, Morton Marcus, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Simic, Tomas Transtromer, James Wright, and many others. Continue reading

Brent MacLaine | Wind and Root | Gazelle Books

The poems in “Wind and Root” emerge from two powerful and sometimes contradictory forces in the poet’s life: one, the rural traditions, landscapes and seascapes of his native province, and the other, a profound desire to move and see beyond those boundaries. Brent MacLaine’s work displays a range of poetical responses – lyrical, tragic, dramatic, realistic, ironic, humourous – from an imagination that swings between the experiences of there and away – of wind – and the experiences of here and home – of root. The power and craft of these poems belie that this is the author’s first book. Continue reading

Sharon Niederman & Miriam Sagan | New Mexico Poetry Renaissance | Gazelle Books

This anthology incorporates biographies and work by forty-one of New Mexico’s finest poets representing diverse cultural backgrounds. Foreword by Robert Creeley; Introduction; Lucile Adler; Jimmy Santiago Baca; Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; John Brandi; Alvaro Cardona-Hine; Ana Castillo; Denise Chavez; Judson Crews; Victor Di Suvero; Martin Edmunds; Gene Frumkin 6; Greg Glazner; Larry Goodell; Renee Gregorio; Joy Harjo; Gerald Hausman; Judyth Hill; Elizabeth Searle Lamb; Donald Levering; Harold Littlebird; Joan Logghe; Anne MacNaughton; E A Mares; Demetria Martinez; Mary McGinnis; Carol Moldaw; Linda Monacelli-Johnson; Nora Naranjo-Morse; Simon J Ortiz; V B Price; Leroy Quintana; Margaret Randall; Leo Romero; Mariam Sagan; Jim Sagel; Rebecca Seiferle; Joseph Somoza; Arthur Sze; Anne Valley-Fox; Keith Wilson; Roger Zelazny. Continue reading